Create, manage and share spatial and design data to help solve business issues and provide tangible benefits to your organization. Autodesk Map® 3D 2006 software, built on the AutoCAD® 2006 platform, connects CAD and GIS by providing the most powerful creation and editing tools for GIS professionals as well as the geospatial features that mapping and CAD technicians require.

Overview :

As engineering, GIS, surveying, and IT departments collaborate and share geographic and design data, organizations can become more competitive, provide better service, and respond to customers more rapidly. By integrating CAD and GIS, Autodesk Map® 3D software helps make entire organizations—not just single departments—more effective, efficient, and profitable.

The Premier Tool for CAD and GIS Integration
Autodesk Map 3D is the premier tool for integrating CAD and GIS technologies. Its strength is a open and flexible environment that enables mapping, CAD, and Civil Engineering professionals to work with virtually any data, regardless of format, including existing data that can represent significant past investment.

Benefiting from Open Architecture
Many organizations can not afford the complex system customizations often required to access infrastructure and location data locked inside proprietary systems. Because Autodesk Map 3D integrates seamlessly and directly with Oracle Spatial, organizations no longer need an inflexible proprietary interface or middleware to access business-critical data. Autodesk Map 3D, along with Oracle Spatial, enables companies to leverage all of their data investments.

Work with Most Industry-Standard Data Formats
DWG and SHP formats are the most prevalent in the CAD and GIS worlds. With Autodesk Map 3D® 2006, you can create, manage, and share these, or any industry-standard format, with the precision of a CAD system. In fact, joint Autodesk and ESRI customers claim that Autodesk GIS software is a better editing tool for ESRI SHP files than ESRIÕs own software. Autodesk Map® also provides powerful GIS capabilities such as topology for performing analysis, including buffers, overlays, dissolves, and network analysis. Autodesk Map 3D bridges the gap between CAD and GIS.

Features:

• Built on the AutoCAD 2006 Platform - Autodesk Map 3D contains all the features and functionality of AutoCAD 2006.
• Improved Display Manager - Using the improved Display Manager feature, create stylized versions of your data to highlight specific features or information. Easily access the tools required to select objects, styles, and themes for display maps.
• New MapBooks - MapBooks simplifies and automates complex tasks that you perform on a regular basis—producing map books for the office or the field. Generate a consistent set of map tiles from your spatial information, segmented by the desired number of sheets or predefined layouts.
• New Menus and Toolbars - Work more intuitively with the new task-based menus in Autodesk Map 3D 2006. Menus are now organized by specified tasks, so you can access the commands you need quickly and easily.
• New and improved providers for Feature Data Objects (FDOs) give you direct, simultaneous access to multiple databases (including Oracle9i, Oracle 10g, and ArcSDE). Direct access helps ensure the accuracy of information by eliminating data conversion.
• Powerful FME Import-Export Engine - The Feature Manipulation Import-Export Engine (FME) in Autodesk Map 3D 2006 provides a powerful way to exchange data with colleagues and customers because it is interoperable with all major GIS software.
• Multi-user Editing - Using the query functionality in Autodesk Map 3D, many users can access and edit the same sets of files or base maps simultaneously.
• Feature Classification - Using the feature classification facility in Autodesk Map 3D 2006, organize objects in your drawing based on the real-world features that they represent.
• Single-user license